Lamar Smith & MPAA Brush Off Wikipedia Blackout As Just A Publicity Stunt Calls Planned Web Site Blackouts “Stunts That Punish Their Users” Editorial An online blackout to prevent a dark day Website protests It's tech world versus Hollywood planned protest piracy bills editors question site's Going Dark Wednesday Protest SOPA Newsy Now January 17 plans antipiracy bill in Congress Hackers Join Fight Against Why even supporters antiSOPA move 'Darkipedia' 10 things you want know about Editors plan Dissident say could threaten credibility of their work Time To Freak Out College Kids Will Be Blacked Tomorrow Act Of

Wikipedia SOPA Blackout Causes Freak Outs On Twitter Chances are most of you who read news online have heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Well, it was recently announced that Wikipedia would institute a blackout in protest of SOPA & PIPA. As … Wikipedia founder defends blackout JIMMY WALES, the co-founder of Wikipedia defended the decision to voluntarily blackout the world's largest online encyclopaedia for 24 hours from 5am GMT on Wednesday. The move will affect the English version. Wikipedia Blackout Lets In Some Light Wikipedia's much publicized 24-hour blackout in protest of online anti-piracy laws is not, it turns out, quite so dark. How to Survive Tomorrow's Wikipedia SOPA Blackout How to Survive Tomorrow's Wikipedia SOPA Blackout The Case For and Against the Wikipedia Blackout Other big Internet players haven't rallied behind Jimmy Wales, after the Wikipedia founder confirmed that the site would go dark this Wednesday to protest SOPA. Wikipedia has joined Reddit for a 24 hour blackout tomorrow. But other anti-Sopa sites aren't sure this is the best way to protest the anti-piracy bill. When asked if Twitter would blackout as well, CEO Dick Costolo called the whole ... Wikipedia's SOPA blackout is the opposite of stupidity Wikipedia has announced that it will go blank on the 18 Jan 2012. And it did. This black out is probably the first in the history of the Internet. To come from a website which showed us the power of Internet, this event becomes extremely important. Wikipedia's blackout is to protest SOPA an anti-internet piracy Bits Blog: Wikipedia Blackout Lets In Some Light Despite Wikipedia's 24-hour blackout, it is still possible to read Wikipedia's content via a number of ways. Wikipedia blackout: Why even supporters question anti-SOPA move The Wikipedia blackout is intended to spotlight the value of open access to information on the Internet, but also underlies how fractious the move is, drawing fire from both critics and supporters. Wikipedia Blackout January 18: 5 Things to Know About the SOPA, PIPA Protest Wikipedia will initiate a blackout on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in protest of the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA. SOPA and PIPA are two Congressional bills meant to halt the illegal copying and sharing of movies and music on the Internet. However, major Internet organizations- such as Wikipedia, Reddit and Boing Boing - claim the bills will hinder their operations and they are ready to protest. Wikipedia blackout: Wikipedia joins SOPA Strike, English version to have one-day offline on January 18 Website Wikipedia.org announced on Monday, January 16, 2012, that it will join the so-called SOPA Strike, in which the English version will have a one-day Wikipedia blackout on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Wikipedia official logo Image Credit: Wikipedia.org According to a press release by Wikipedia that day, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said that the online [...]
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